Organizational Readiness Building Toolkit

The Organizational Readiness Building (ORB) toolkit assists in assessing and guiding organizational efforts to support and sustain the CPM. Tools and resources focus on critical areas of leadership, organizational climate, teaming structures, communication, and using data to understand and improve implementation. By themselves, the ORB resources and tools do not necessarily advance CPM implementation. Instead, they can add value when you integrate them into your own local processes to understand how the organization can support CPM implementation planning. Wherever your county is in the process, these tools and resources will clarify and get concrete about how you can get more deliberate about your organization's role to support the use of CPM!

The Organizational Readiness Building (ORB) Toolkit is designed to help child welfare leaders at all levels to understand, explain, assess, and strengthen key aspects of the organization’s role to support use of the practice model.  It includes resources and tools to help you communicate with and engage people in CPM implementation planning, and then to assess, prioritize, and plan to address key elements of organizational readiness to change. The toolkit focuses on the critical roles of leadership, organizational climate, teaming structures, communication, and using data to understand and improve implementation activities. Most importantly, the ORB Toolkit includes a set of seven (7) county profiles that describe their experiences to describe the fit, utility, and need for understanding and addressing ORB elements as a key feature in implementing the CPM.